The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing in Vienna tonight. And I am not going. And I know that I’ll be missing out because Karen O is crazy and puts up really great shows, but at the same time I am not so sure I want to spend that much money for a band I’ve grown to, [...]
June 28, 2009
Oh God, I miss you too much. This movie reminds me of very good and very sad times. Eternal Sunshine will always be my #1 Michel Gondry movie, but the Science of Sleep is a close second; it’s so intense and cute and makes you want to pick up random little objects to create a whole, [...]
June 28, 2009
I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for instance, Mike Goldberg is starting a painting. I drop in. “Sit down and have a drink” he says. I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” “Yes, it needed something there.” “Oh.” I go and the [...]
June 28, 2009
Finally! finally, I managed to see Clara Luzia live! And even though every year I tell myself I will not be going to the Donauinsel festival again (too crowded, too many drunks, I get a little agoraphobic), I dragged myself there once again, and it was absolutely worth it. There wasn’t too much confusion around the [...]
June 25, 2009
Since the Whitest Boy Alive (Erlend Øye’s side-project) was formed, Kings of Convenience have been playing hide and seek with the press. Now and then though, they send out newsletters and emails to reassure their fans: Kings of Convenience are still alive and kicking, and working on a new album. Back when I lived in Bergen [...]
June 24, 2009
I don’t think I’ve mentioned enough how much I adore the Unicorns. The fact that they broke up years ago, that not enough people know about this wonderfully hilarious and insane band, and that I will never get to sing along to Jellybones live makes me a little sad. Today is a rainy day and [...]
June 22, 2009
As I’ve already mentioned almost two months ago, Uno Møller Ch has self-released a new EP. Hola! he said with a friendly voice is comprised of seven songs, of which a slow and dreamy cover of Billy Idol’s Dancing with Myself. A while ago, he sent me five copies of the EP to give away [...]
June 21, 2009
..especially when it is love for a young and talented boy from Norway. Since Norway is sort of my favorite country in the world, how could I not be a little bit in love with Sjur Lyseid too? Because Sjur makes lovely bedroom romance winter songs – that’s the best I can describe them in [...]
June 20, 2009
(if you don’t know what this is then you are a little uncool) I’ve been wondering how much of our feelings actually matter. I read a really cool Iggy Pop interview on the plane back from Cologne; who would have thought that he would someday make me stop and think. He said something about how when [...]
June 17, 2009
I dragged my friend N to this 7” release show on Monday, since we had an Ether magazine meeting AND we were in the area. Well, the first thing he said when Werner Kitzmüller Trio came on stage was, “this is depressing music. it makes me want to kill myself”. And this is sort of true. [...]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a local magazine based in Englaaand and make used to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used to still have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org
June 30, 2009